Mohammad Najibullah

Mohammad Najibullah Ahmadzai (6 August 1947-27 September 1996) was the President of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan from 1986 to 1992, succeeding Babrak Karmal and preceding Abdul Rahim Hatif.

Biography
Najibullah was born to a Sunni Pashtun family of the Ahmadzai clan, and under the rule of President Babrak Karmal he led the KGB-inspired KHAD. He fought in the Soviet-Afghan War against the Mujahideen rebels, who sought to establish an Islamic state rather than a communist state. In 1986 the Soviet Union ousted President Karmal and Najibullah became president, but the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan in 1988 left Najibullah to fend for himself. Surprisingly, the Afghan National Army (ANA) held out for four more years until the Afghan Mujahideen captured Kabul in 1992.

Najibullah, now deposed, was targeted by some rogue Mujahideen during the Afghan Civil War era of the 1990s. Najibullah was captured by the Taliban in 1996; he was castrated, dragged behind a truck, and publicly hanged.